RN Case Manager

Job Summary

The Registered Nurse Care Team Leader (Case Manager) at Village Home Health provides professional nursing services to patients in their homes. Responsibilities include assessing conditions, processing orders, providing treatments, administering drugs, coordinating care, educating patients and families, and documenting progress.

Essential Job Functions

• Effectively and timely provides for the comfort and well-being of patients by assessing conditions, processing physicians' orders, providing treatments and administering prescribed drugs.
• Timely and effectively coordinates nursing care for patients and educates the patients/residents and family about the care.
• Timely delegates appropriate aspects of nursing care to staff which includes evaluating, monitoring and assuring delivery of care.
• Accurately and timely documents patients/residents progress toward goals and other observations.
• Reports patients/residents changes, needs and/or requirements to the appropriate staff.

Essential Qualifications

• Education: Associate's degree in professional nursing (ADN).
• Licenses/Certifications: Registered Nurse by both Missouri and Kansas State Board of Nursing, current Basic Life Support (BLS) certification.
• Knowledge and Skills: Basic level knowledge of Microsoft operating system and software, ability to manage multiple tasks, ability to read, analyze, and interpret general business periodicals, professional journals, technical procedures, or governmental regulations, ability to write reports, business correspondence, and procedure manuals, ability to effectively present information and respond to questions from groups of managers, clients, customers, and the general public, ability to add, subtract, multiply, and divide in all units of measure, using whole numbers, common fractions, and decimals, ability to define problems, establish facts, and draw valid conclusions, ability to deal with a variety of abstract and concrete variables.
• Special Working Conditions: Subject to both inside and outside environmental conditions, exposure to infectious diseases, required to function around individuals with challenged mental capacities, required to drive from one location to another if necessary for services provided through the department, may have "on-call" responsibilities depending on services offered in the department, subject to physical demands including stooping, kneeling, crouching, reaching, standing for sustained periods of time, pushing, pulling and lifting using upper extremities and back muscles, reaching by extending hand(s) and arm(s) in any direction, exerting up to 50 lbs of force occasionally, and/or up to 20 lbs of force frequently, and/or up to 10 lbs of force constantly to move objects, required to have close visual acuity to perform an activity at distances close to the eyes such as: preparing and analyzing data; viewing a computer terminal; extensive reading, required to hear sounds at normal speaking levels and express or exchange ideas by means of talking, required to stoop by bending the spine or at the waist, required to kneel by bending legs at knee to come to a rest on knee or knees, required to crouch by bending the leg and spine, required to reach by extending hand(s) and arm(s) in any direction, required to stand for sustained periods of time, walk from one site to another, required to push, pull and lift using upper extremities and back muscles, required to finger such as picking, pinching, typing; grasping with the fingers and palm and feeling attributes of objects by touching with skin, particularly that of fingertips, required to repeat motions of the wrists, hands, and/or fingers.

Supervision Received and Given

• Receives daily supervision from Clinical Manager.
• May provide direction to care givers on a daily basis.

Physical and Mental Demands

• Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.
• Exerts up to 50 lbs of force occasionally, and/or up to 20 lbs of force frequently, and/or up to 10 lbs of force constantly to move objects.
• Required to have close visual acuity to perform an activity at distances close to the eyes such as: preparing and analyzing data; viewing a computer terminal; extensive reading.
• Required to hear sounds at normal speaking levels and express or exchange ideas by means of talking.
• Required to stoop by bending the spine or at the waist, kneel by bending legs at knee to come to a rest on knee or knees, and crouch by bending the leg and spine.
• Required to reach by extending hand(s) and arm(s) in any direction.
• Required to stand for sustained periods of time, walk from one site to another.
• Required to push, pull and lift using upper extremities and back muscles.
• Required to finger such as picking, pinching, typing; grasping with the fingers and palm and feeling attributes of objects by touching with skin, particularly that of fingertips.
• Required to repeat motions of the wrists, hands, and/or fingers.

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